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' v GARMENT SUPPORTING CLASP! No. 413,792. Patented 001: 29, 18,89

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. RICHARDSON, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ED- MUND CONVERSE AND AMBROSE T. MATTHEWS, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING CL ASP.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,792, dated October 29, I889.

- Be it known that I, FRANK A. RICHARD-- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing.

at Worcester, in the countyof Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- SupportingClasps, of which, the following,

together with the accompanying drawings, is

a specification suliiciently full, clear, and exro act to enable persons skilled in the art to which this invention appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my present invention is to provide a garment-supporting clasp adapted for sustaining under-drawers upon the waistband of pant-aloons, or for similar uses, which clasp shall be of simple and efficient construction, and which can be manufactured wit-h'practical facility and produced at comparatively small cost.

To this end my invention consists in a clasp formed of two pieces of metal severally shaped and combined in the peculiar manner as shown and hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved garment-supporting clasp. Fig. 2 is a central section of the clasp,

' with its hook in position for placing the clasp upon the waistband of the garment or upon 0 the edge or fold of a fabric. Fig. 3 is a similar section with the hook in position, as when clasping or supporting the under-garment from the belt of the outer garment. Fig. 4

shows in detail the form of the blank from 5 5 which the frame or guard of the clasp is produced, and Fig. 5 shows in detail the form of the blank from which the hook of the clasp is produced.

In the construction of my improved clasp 10 the blank A for the guard or frame of the clasp is punched from sheet metal of suitable thickness, in shape substantially as shown in Fig. 4, and a narrow. transverse slot a is formed through said blank at a position about half-way between the center and one end of the blank, as indicated.

The blank B, for forming the hooked portion of the clasp, is punched from sheet metal in the shape substantially as shown in Fig.

5, with a rounded end at c, and having at its opposite end laterally-projecting ears (1 cl.

Application filed December 15, 1888. Serial No. 298,672. (No model.)

opening a inlthe blank A, and the outer end of said tongue bent over to form a hook B, in the shape and manner illustrated. The blank or plate A is then folded along its transverse central axis m, with an open curve at f, so that the two sidesthereof stand at a short distance apart, the space it between the sides being slightly greater than the width of the flange b on the part B, as illustrated, thus forming a shield or guard A, the two parts forming a complete article, such as shown in Fig. 1. IVhen the tongue or hook B is turned downward, as in Fig. 2,the guard A can be passed over the edge of any garment or fabric G to be supported, and then when the hook B is raised, as indicated in Fig. 3, the flange'b binds the fabric against the back of the guard A, holding it in place so that it can be suspended upon an outer garment I by hooking the tongue B over the belt or edge'of the outer garment, as indicated. (See dotted lines, Fig. 3.)

The outline of the blanks may be varied or modified to give anyornamental appearance desired, the mechanical construction remaining the same as described.

A clasp formed of the two parts A and B, shaped and combined as shown and described, can be manufactured with practical facility and at comparatively small expense, and produce an efficient and very desirable article for the purpose intended.

I am aware that garmentsupporting clasps of various constructions have heretofore been patented, and I do not therefore make claim, broadly, to a supporting-clasp for the purpose specified, except it be constructed substantially as hereinbefore described.

I am also aware that it is common in suspenderbuckles and other kinds of buckles to employ an angular flange for giving a grip upon the strap or webbing, and I therefore make no claim to such feature in buckles, or in such constructions as are not intended or adapted to be used for supporting garments in the manner described that is, by clasping the adjacent Waistbands one to the other.

I claim as my invention to be secured by Letters Patent- In a garmentsupporting clasp, the guard 10 A, having the straight horizontally-folded top f and the downwardly-extended sides, one of 

